Roy Hargrove - Approaching Standards (1994)

Roy Hargrove/Trumpet,Flugelhorn; Stephen Scott/Piano; John Hicks/Piano; Billy Higgins/Drums; Ron Blake/Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone; Scott Colley/Bass; Foster/Drums; Gregory Hutchinson/Drums; Frank Lacy/Trombone;Christian McBride/Bass; Rodney Whitaker/Bass.

Ballads dominate the album, accounting for seven of the album's ten tracks; Hargrove generally interprets them in a cool, emotionally detached manner...Compiled from four albums whose recording dates span from 1989 to 1993, Approaching Standards...also documents Hargrove's growth as a musician. "Everything I Have is Yours/Dedicated to You," taken from the 1993 recording Of Kindred Souls, finds Hargrove in a more mature frame of mind, and points toward the much better albums he would soon make.